Coronavirus | Iran bans flights from India and Pakistan
The Hindu
‘The decision was made by Iran's Health Ministry and it takes effect from Saturday midnight’
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency is reporting the country's civil aviation agency has banned all flights to and from India and Pakistan because of the dramatic surge in coronavirus cases in the two nations. IRNA says the decision was made by Iran's Health Ministry and it takes effect on Saturday at midnight. Mohammad Hassan Zibakhsh, spokesman for Iran's Civil Aviation Organization noted there are no routine flights between Iran and India and “flights are operated occasionally.” Several other countries in the region, including the sheikhdoms of , Oman and Kuwait, also have banned flights to and from India over the rise in coronavirus cases there.
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